Letters

Gene, I just hope you read this, it really doesn't matter to me if it gets posted on your website. I know you are busy and I will try to make this short. To start in 2006 my wife and I took our son Frank when we met you at Virgin Records in Downtown Disney for the KISS fragrance line. We had him in a KISS bears beanie and matching T-Shirt, it is amazing that he was less than a year old and that was the start of it all for him. Now just over two years later quite the little fan he has become, he became attached to you as the Demon, before any other members. He has two of my posters up in his room(among a plethora of Kiss, & "GENE" items), and KISS does not spell "Kiss" it spells "GENE". My wife got tickets as a present to me for my birthday for the 3 of us to the Tampa show. We painted his face, bought him a shirt, and a program ("GENE BOOK") and to see his excitement when the KISS curtain dropped was one of those moments as a parent you will never forget. The first initial explosion at the start of Deuce scared him, he then turns to me and asks "is that really Gene", I told him "yes it is Gene", he started calling your name out and saying hello, telling others around us to quiet down Gene can't hear him. He started dancing at the start of Strutter, (we were seated at the end of our row) and stood out by the stairs and says, "Bye mama, bye daddy, I am going to go say Hi to Gene." When I stopped him and explained that he couldn't he started to cry his eyes out, he wanted to go on stage and say hi to you, that is all we heard throughout the show from him, until your bass solo. When Paul came out into the audience he was not more than 20ft. away from us, Frank was calling out to Paul, "Hi Paul, its me Frank, Paul, HI". After the show was over, he cried as if someone had just blown up Disney World. So my wife and I have decided that if KISS goes back out on the road we are going to purchase the Platinum Package so our little one can meet you in make-up and costume. In closing, this past NAMM (2009) after your son and his band performed you back by the mixing board under the canopy, my wife tried coming up to you to say thank you, but you got pulled away so soon, after you got done tease flirting with the older lady in the wheel chair. Not only have I been a fan of KISS, and you, but Shannon as well, and she allowed me to take a picture with her. I just wanted to send this email over to you, along with the photos of my son, hopefully you read it, I know it is long and it could've been longer. Thank you Gene, for ....well it all!! Sincerely, Jerry d'Paoli